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discussed in biography

...for best supporting actress. Booth returned for the tearjerker
About Mrs. Leslie (1954), playing the lover of a tycoon (Robert Ryan). In 1955 Mann helmed
The Rose Tattoo, with a screenplay by Williams. It featured Italian actress Anna Magnani, in her Hollywood debut, as a grieving widow; Lancaster was the truck driver who revives her passion....

Oscars to Magnani for best actress, to Howe for best cinematography, and to Larsen and Pereira for best art direction, 1955

role of Magnani

...who was seduced by a stranger she imagined to be a saint; an aggressive stage mother in
Bellissima (1951); the robust widow of a truck driver in
The Rose Tattoo (1955), her first Hollywood film, for which she won the Academy Award for best actress; and the wife of an Italian mayor in
The Secret of Santa...